russia's leaders speak out about sunday's parliamentary elections following criticism from both inside and outside the country dmitri medvedev and vladimir putin call for dialogue but warn foreign powers against meddling in russia's political life i'll have more on this in a few moments time. if you don't well you know if on friday we don't find an agreement there is no second chance euro d.-day the french president warns the single currency is doomed if states don't gather under the brussels umbrella. and security concerns russia says nato is not ready to seriously work together on

european missile defense and isn't addressing those concerns. eight pm thursday night here in moscow welcome i'm kevin owen and first this hour on our team president dmitri medvedev says a thorough investigation into sunday's parliamentary election is needed but called the rallies that followed a sign of democracy it comes of russia's prime minister suggested soaping dialogue with the opposition while warning foreign powers against interfering in the country's political affairs let's hear more from artie's peter all of those in central moscow. president medvedev has called for calm across russia and said that the new parliament should be allowed to get about the work that it was put in place to do now he did say that the final result of the elections that were held on sunday could be delayed to allow a full investigation into allegations of electoral irregularities to be

investigated now on the protesters well president medvedev said the demonstrations are all part of the democratic process however he did stress that protesters must respect the law and a central election commission may decide the final results of the election can be confirmed now but if a some reason it needs more time and has a right to presume publishing them but only based on facts and our election law i believe the questions being asked now about the election results and violations have a right to exist they have to be carefully investigated that's what the central election commission is for and that's what courts are full there are no other investigation procedures with regards to the post-election situation but there are people who are disappointed we do i believe are disorientated sure what is nothing wrong in this is there is nothing wrong with the rallies that we have seen because rallies are a sign of democracy president medvedev there echoing earlier words from prime

minister vladimir putin he said that the protesters had a constitutional right to demonstrate but that they must stick to the rule of the law now prime minister putin also said. he was willing to enter into dialogue with the leaders of the opposition for them to try and hammer out their grievances prime minister putin also addressed comments from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton she criticized sunday's parliamentary poll saying it was neither fair nor free now prime minister putin said this her words sent a signal to the opposition to take action and hillary clinton continues to. say that she believes that the russian elections that were held on sunday weren't fair now with regard to international observers who were looking at those elections but to me a putin said that they will welcome to look at russia's parliamentary system parliamentary vote but that russia would not tolerate outside interference in their domestic

affairs and i stopped by. our partners shakers from time to time so that we don't forget who owns this planet so that we know they have methods of pressure and influence on our country from within and when it comes to humanitarian or health issues that's one thing but when foreign money is being invested into internal political affairs that should make us think that what's especially on acceptable is a flow of foreign money into the electoral process it's absolutely unacceptable but on thursday everything is quiet here in moscow chews day we did see some small scale protests there were really too often in numbers by the police and journalists and camera crews who were there now we are expecting over the weekend to see the largest demonstrations to date with both pro-government protesters and those who oppose sunday's parliamentary election vote coming out onto the streets of russia

here all of our following hillary clinton's comments about russia's elections just lochlyn from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris told r.t. that washington always but into other countries domestic affairs. washington has intervened in many elections across eastern europe and the former soviet union over the last twenty years and it's often done so in just a brazen a way as it's doing now and i like prime minister putin and president medvedev personally regard this interference as completely unacceptable it's very important to understand that the reports that was produced on monday by the or by the observers of the. was written as are all such reports before the election took place the fact is that democracy in the full sense of the word involves also the rule of law and that's why these allegations if they are if they can be substantiated should be investigated by the authorities and should be and should ideally lead to criminal prosecutions if they're proved it's not true and straight

in the streets you're going to get a lot of there have to be criminal prosecutions for electoral fraud if the allegations can be sustained so we just see in those pictures there what the protests in russia actually look like but this is how one american news channel portrayed what's happening. america has its fair share of protests and political dissent to be dealing with instead of keeping an eye on the ball the country's mass media machine has turned to protests in russia and dropped the ball on reporting the facts. the protesters have gathered at moscow's lashing out against prime minister vladimir putin and his real united russia party the only problem is that this video is not from russia fox news channel aired a video of fires and chaos in athens convincing viewers that this mayhem is playing out in moscow the fair and balanced network paid no mind to the greek lettering in the background in case you're wondering it says greek national bank what matters is

that this is what moscow protests have looked like it's not surprising whatsoever that at the moment that there would be any kind of protest no matter how small it be in russia against the russian government that it would be greatly exaggerated in media and used by the u.s. government as well as a way to try to somehow push for a change in russia that would be more favorable to u.s. interests journalist and author eva golinger believes mass media is washington's most valuable weapon in encouraging revolt elsewhere under the mantle of spreading democracy such as the so-called orange revolution in ukraine. or ruse revolution in georgia. perception is created that something is happening in a country that's not right and that the government is somehow responsible and so therefore if that government ends up being removed it somehow is justified that you know the media has played a key role in creating

a justification for regime change similar anti-government demonstrators have been reported and other city in russia u.s. leaders have leveled harsh criticism against russia in the aftermath of sunday's parliamentary election and critics say it's free press has worked. to reinforce the narrative the media tends to march in lock step with the government tends to take its cues from the government it tends to you know mobilize its resources to showcase what the government says is true even when later it turns out not to be true as was the case in this a rooney a c.n.n. report well in eastern russia more than three thousand people protested against proposed changes to the country's time zones the video shown by c.n.n. is not of protesters but rather of soccer fans writing in moscow over the killing of a fellow supporter the problem is that we showed the wrong pictures only after the error was repeatedly noticed c.n.n. owned up to its mistake and to apologize for the era integrate with even many

russian viewers who have pointed out the sloppiness of it or is reflecting you know the lack of awareness of the journalists themselves many of them are completely uninformed about the world they have opinions that have no factual basis to him but it doesn't stop them because it's what looks good that matters more than what really is true the truth is that america has its own social economic and political challenges to be dealing with and while washington works on getting its own house in order powerful mass media outlets can work on getting their facts straight. r.t. new york well still ahead while washington promises to teach the world about democracy is turning a blind eye towards. up to seventy protesters were arrested in the u.s. capitol in the latest government to break up the ante called across america good morning for you. next though it's the latest day of reckoning for the single

currency is europe's leaders are set for a key two day summit in brussels that will decide they say the region's future germany and france are pushing for a new e.u. treaty is to bind the nations into a close knit fiscal union with his own taxes and penalties artie's test for sinners across all this in brussels for. initially there are expectations maybe they can come up with some sort of a semi solution but right now after the speeches made by cozy of mark merkel and you commissioner byrd also as well as the chief drug places actually the leaders in ma say there are the expectations sort of went down and markets have been reacting to it first of all merkel and sarkozy have been using the arguments over this is a make or break day the euro could collapse that if we don't come up with a solution by to morrow evening there is no second chance but on the other hand you can see that they are trying to rally support for their calls for those new treaty

changes there are still those who who oppose having to rewrite the treaties and changing fundamentally the european union leading up to this day they were saying they want more punishment for repeat offenders they want automatic sanctions on countries that don't manage their deficits and they also want centralized power in brussels now that raises the question of whether sovereignty would be given over to brussels national sovereignty but that you have countries like the u.k. who are not part of the euro area who are saying i'm not they're not going to be signing any treaties or agree to any changes if it doesn't protect the interests of the u.k. whatever cycle as he did say that if they don't manage to find an agreement among the twenty seven the seventeen year old will have to move forward with it you see the chief druggy he had been expected to give more of an assurance to the markets but that really didn't happen while he did give some concessions first he said they would enhance access to liquidity to a managed money markets here they put the key interest rate by twenty five basis

points to one percent collateral rules and have saluted longer term lending measures but he said all these measures are temporary one thing though that everyone was looking forward to the markets were expecting is the e.c.b. to act more decisively in this euro zone crisis basically to act as sort of a lender of last. sort all that is not in the mandate so basically the e.c.b. acting through the i.m.f. and lending to your own nations but again he dismissed that idea so it seems a very unclear at the moment expectations are star starting to go down because of statements being made. out of michael ross economic analysts north of the book the currency crash michael good evening ok we're all bets now on tomorrow that and what's going to come out of it i mean even if the decision to save the euro is a go within the next forty eight hours. then going on to say this is going to take years to implement the solutions coming eurozone really wait that long. i mean if you look behind me we have these euro sign it's not illuminated it's dark normally

it's supposed to be illuminated so this might be a bad omen for that what we can expect from this e.u. summit every week we have a new emergency meeting every week we have new hopes every week we have new disappointments and in my opinion this e.u. summit will lead to nothing because i cannot hear anything with which which comes close to a solution the only thing that they are producing there in brussels is catastrophe catastrophe of rescue efforts and this will lead next week wallace to chaos catastrophe and collapse of the whole system possibly because as long as we don't have any solution for this you are a problem and we are short in time at the moment you rule have bad consequences in the coming future michael you told of what you said that grim warning with possibly let's try and focus in on but at this what they're calling this eleventh

hour we've seen as you said so many summits so many gathering so many analysts talking it's been going on and on round in circles the stakes are so high now what if it doesn't turn out what if something positive doesn't come out tomorrow where we're going to be next week. i mean in my opinion we will have a. very bad consequences for the financial markets next week in my opinion politicians are not aware what is on stake at the moment i don't know what is we going on. it is known that the only solution is more or less euro bonds but germany doesn't like to play this card. the only solution is that we go on and did a little little steps but we don't we need to know what we need now is a very very huge step and to as i said earlier. in germany the politicians are against euro bonds is nothing else then to say we are against the euro because

a common currency cannot exist without a common bond market and when you say no ok we don't want to market a common bond market then you say indirectly that you are against the door and one more point i think most of the politicians among this year all family don't really know what is on sick they behave like first class passengers in a titanic that is already sinking and what politicians say right now ok we have time nothing everything is all right but this ship is sinking and there is no solution to keep it alive michael what about this move by the european central bank to borrowing to the one percent and ten point two five is going to make much of a difference. in my opinion it doesn't make a big difference we will have further rate cuts in the future. and this is also another problematic point when you look at japan when you look at the united states fed there in d.c.

be. what is left which to do they have left in order to solve this crisis this rate cut that we saw today is long overdue and it was more or less a suicidal act of mr to she during the last months to take them up but now they have to come down to zero the problem will be. still there and politicians and central bankers as well don't have any solution to this crisis the crisis is over debt and if you are honest there is no real solution but the current reform or something are. bankrupt bankruptcy of government all right michael ross it's a grim out it's a grim alley of pain in there but it kind of makes sense when you say and i guess economic analyst and author of the book the currency crash i guess we talk to you next week as well thank you. refusing to take security concerns into account and isn't ready for serious cooperation on a missile shield in europe so says russia's foreign minister for russia and nato

meeting in brussels after the talks both sides admitted that no progress had been made said nato should understand that russia cannot allow alliance ray doesn't missiles to cover most of its territory and that it needs legal guarantees that the shield isn't directed at it something nature has refused to do so if you general of nato underscore rasmussen said the allies did take russia's concerns into account but that's not the impression moscow is getting. because if we are invited to call great would like to be able to discuss the terms but we're told that no discussion is needed because everything has been decided already and we don't need to worry and when we say that there are things that can surface they give us the same reply over and over again so don't worry the shield isn't directed against you but apart from the talk of trust we need legal guarantees because inventions however good they are could change but military interests and potential is

a totally different matter. well with the absence of that guarantee russia deployed a radar in its western most territory just last month in response to nato as missile defense plans it stresses the facility the exclave of kaliningrad is not aimed at the u.s. led alliance also are deploying missiles along its western border and threatens to pull out from the strategic arms reduction treaty washington sealed deals with poland romania and turkey to host elements of its system which it wants ready by twenty twenty russia's envoy to nato believes moscow is justified in its determination now to respond. to the north you have to win you the missile shield directly contradicts the founding act russia and nato relations of based on when we signed it fifteen years ago we agreed that new new significant military forces should appear along our borders but the anti missile shield in rumania poland who are the relocation of parts of the us navy to the black and baltic sea is of course

a significant increase in military presence we like jokes but this one has gone too far it looks like an anaconda tightening its grip around us and we determined to cut it to pieces. it's like nato is building a leaning tower of pisa next to our border and it's telling us don't worry it's not going to fall on your head but we find it hard to believe we see it leaning over us of course we're going to use some sort of priorities. to keep it up and see it. just tell you about our websites not cover stories there as well as the fanaticism or all of the stories about these as well americans series leaving the country in record numbers head to our website to find out why the so-called land of plenty is no longer a green place for over six million citizens also online from us while all the guns fall silent in libya after the bloody civil war investigates why in a new country with a new government the definitive future appears and. in washington up to seventy and

he corporate occupy protesters were arrested when police dispersed a mass rally close to the front of the white house is the latest effort by authorities to break up the movement which has spread across america over the past three months he's got a chip you can witness the crackdown in the u.s. capitol. as far as i could tell there were around four thousand people on the street minutes away from the white house over seventy protesters were arrested and there was a girl in a wheelchair among them police stepped up arrest when protesters mostly young people blocked the road they were dragging them towards the police cars one person got nearly struck by a police force so seventy people arrested this is been the largest number of arrests in washington says the beginning of this occupy movement this was all happening on k. street which is known as the lobbyist street people were protesting what they see as widespread corruption in the government authorities there pretty much cracked

down on this occupy movement against corporate greed and government complicity with brutal of actions of demonstrators from their occupy locations in california and in new york police used tear gas on people pepper spray rubber bullets sound cannons keep in mind it's been largely a very peaceful movement around five thousand peaceful protesters have been arrested in the last three months across the united states probably any country doing that would be irrationally reprimanded for violating human rights but that doesn't seem to be the case when it comes to the united states and around the world syrian activists say there's been an explosion of no pipeline to the besieged city of homes no casualties reported state run news that it was a bomb planted by a terrorist group the explosion is the latest event involving the rise into the shape of a country of the past ten months. and israeli airstrikes killed two suspected palestinian militants reportedly planning

a terrorist attack along the egyptian border the men were hit while driving a car close to a crowded talking explosions mooted several bystanders frequently targets suspected insurgents. thailand has jailed a u.s. citizen for two and a half years for insulting the country's royal family the man translated from a locally banned biography of the king and posted links online the fifty five year old thai born american was arrested in may when he visited the country to seek medical treatment for arthritis not blood pressure he was then charged on the tile and strict laws against insulting the monarch. fighting broke out of a climate change conference in durban with environmental activist accusing supporters of south africa's president of attacking them jacob zuma is loyalist there accusing it of snatching posters and bundling protesters out of a meeting into improving civil society the green peace pact demonstrators held up the u.s. plan is the zuma looked on i want the government to put the interests of south

africa over the interests of america. coming up to a twenty three minutes past eight at night here in moscow good to have you with us now in a few minutes we explore what impact the debt crisis in europe is having on economies around the rest of the world for much shorter than but the day's business now with dmitri. german power grid operator. second the first step to full listing on the london stock exchange parties i've been at reports trading in the russian firms global topos reduce its gets a little. m.r. s.k. holding just became the latest russian company to list on the london stock exchange it was a ceremony here with a countdown to the moment trading began on this first day is shares are being listed as g.d.r. as global depositary receipts each one representing two hundred of the company's shares to begin with though this is just a technical listing so no actual money will be made here instead the whole point of

this is to boost the liquidity the company stocks are to raise awareness of the company in the city here and to increase investment as the company c.f.o. explains where here or are direct. new investors to widen the base for international investors to make the conditions important is for current and international investors to make more reliable and the more attractive attractiveness for them to realize their shares in the trail shares here in the m.r.i. scanner holding is the largest electricity distributor in russia with over two million kilometers of power cables but its performance this year hasn't been strong due to the current market conditions its shares are down fifty percent this year so listing here in london one of the global financial capitals is obviously an attempt to boost that already several of the russian companies listed here some even big enough to break into the thirty one hundred the mining companies poly mental everyone's for example recently started listing as premium companies and today m r

s k holding although it's just a technical listing it's taken the first step towards a full listing here. it's now moved to the markets where half way through the session there was a change of mood oil prices are now down lights we declining more than one half dollars per barrel bread at one hundred eight dollars exactly so you know second why this is happening is first look at the u.s. stocks they opened lower last despite job list claims coming in a post level of nine months why this is happening is because the easy b.'s chief mario druggies says the banks hands are tied and i can't go ahead with. monetary financing so really what's happening in europe is pretty much forming the picture all around the world european central bank lending rate by twenty five basis points to one percent this widely expected move follows a quarter point cut in november fully undo a rate hikes than the bit earlier this year we were back of england has decided to leave rates and stimulus unchanged here in moscow the markets were in

a better position after two days of losses the obvious in my six managed to maintain some of its gains some of their gains by the end of the sessions you can see that there are powerful ascent to look at the main movers in the my stocks they are driven by financial results reports. point two percent for bush net profit rose one percent to four hundred thirty million dollars steelmakers server style is down zero the company's net profit reached one half billion dollars in the first nine months of the year and here's an interesting one bt be the second largest bank is also point two percent it has doubled net profit during the first nine months of the year reaching two point three billion dollars now the bank has benefited from a record performance of its retail sector as well as corporate investment operations company's chief financial officer but most reflects on the results at a time when the western banks stepped out from russia significantly we are actually

taking the market share for next year we take a much more cautious stance we are thinking of much more moderate long growth the longer of will be at around twenty percent. at the same time we remain pretty constructive on the profit forecast we think will chariot a profit of at least the same magnitude that that this year. international monetary fund is kind of forecast for russia's economic expansion due to uncertainty about the eurozone crisis and now expects g.d.p. is a grocery and a half percent next year compared to an early fall cost of four percent the i.m.f. warns about a further slowdown in expansion if things get worse and. the russian economy is facing. from the external side the euro area crisis is a serious risk it's already having effects on russia and we think growth will. remain the best circumstances look to be higher than three point five percent next year but if we use it this crisis worsens. you've got to start

affecting the oil price you know addition to. having financial sector effects and. lowering on all exports so the russian economy. has serious research from the extreme side. so for now but i will be back and if i've been assigned with an update join if you.

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